“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois Copy Share Image
Ordinarily I would play the Lee Marvin role in 'Avalanche.' You know, the cynical, two-fisted rebel. But I play the president's agent… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When… — Paula Vogel Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Mockers are cynical, critical, condescending, and controlling. You always feel off balance around them. You never know where you stand. They always… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Watching you walk out of my life has not made me bitter or cynical about love...rather it makes me think if I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a… — Bun E. Carlos Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd… — John Sharp Williams Copy Share Image
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra.… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing.… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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